
St. Mary's Church, Cracow (14th-15th Centuries)
Minutes of the 1996 Meeting
Treasurer's Report
Balance 10/27/95 -----------$ 477.69
Dues received ---------------------$ 460.00
Postage -----------$ 259.59 *
Interest ---------------------------$ 5.64
Printing -----------$ 57.00
Balance 10/31/96 ---------- $ 617.31
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includes interest received from George.Note from the Treasurer:
ESSA would like to express its gratitude to Kent State University for its commitment to the Early Slavic Studies Newsletter. Kent State University has graciously provided financial assistance to cover the printing of the Newsletter. Special thanks also go to the secretaries of the History Department, Betty Sawicki and Ellen Denning, for assisting in the production of the Newsletter and providing overall computer support.
British Medievalists Meet
ESSA/SEEMSG Draft Directory
Fall 1996 Conference in Kirov/Viatka
David Goldfrank
UCLA Second "Winter" Workshop
Midwest Medieval Slavic Workshop at The University of Chicago
ESSA Business Meeting in Seattle
Information Exchange
(1) Please take note that forms, directory corrections and dues payments should be sent to:
Prof. Isolde Thyrêt History Department Kent State University Kent, OH 44242.(2) All ESSA members may place brief notices in future "Information Exchange" or "Letopis'" columns by sending them to:
David Prestel Department of Linguistics and Languages A-613 Wells Hall Michigan State University East Lansing, MI 48824-1027 E-Mail: prestel@pilot.msu.edu FAX 517 432-2746(3) Ludwig Steindorff reports that at the end of November 1996 he took part in a conference held in Saint Petersburg, which was organized by the Russian National Library and the "Fond vo imia svt. Dmitriia Rostovskogo." The conference was called "Sikh zhe pamiat' prebyvaet vo veki. Memorial'nyi aspekt v kul'ture russkogo pravoslaviia." The first day was dedicated to the practice of donation and liturgical commemoration mainly in the sixteenth century. Dr. Steindorff delivered a paper entitled "Pominanie usopshikh kak obshchee nasledie Drevnei Rusi i zapadnogo Srednevekov'ia." On the second day, the lectures dealt with the sad state of historical cemeteries in Saint Petersburg. The lectures will appear in a special volume which will probably come out some time next year.
(4) Alexander Strakhov, editor of Palaeoslavica, has informed us that Volume 5 has recently been published. It contains articles on the following topics: Ancient Slavs on the Danube (O. Trubacev), Constantine-Cyril and Mesrop-Mast'oc' (N. Trunte); the 14th-15th century manuscripts of the Novgorod Lisitsy Monastery (M. Gal'chenko); literary activity of Prince Andrei Kurbskii (V. Kalugin); Slavic tradition of Joca Monachorum (A. and O. Strakhov); rhythmical function of pleophony and non-pleophany in Russian folk songs (J. Bailey).
The Publication of Texts section contains an edition with commentaries of Maksim Grek's Greek poems (I. Sevcenko), as well as the texts of some 17th-century monastic inventories (L. Astakhina).
The Speculum section offers new readings of birch-bark documents (Nos. 133,136, 325, 359, 390) by A. Strakhov, and the Miscellanea section presents notes and remarks by, among others, H. G. Lunt, F. J. Oinas, A Kulik, V. Orel, and V. Pichugina.
For information contact
Palaeoslavica P. O. Box 380863 Cambridge, MA 02138-086.Letopis'
Per Ambrosiani (Stockholm University) has a forthcoming article entitled "Internal Analysis of Church Slavic Orthography," in Studies in Slavic and General Linguistics, vol. 23.
Maria Salomon Arel (Thomas J. Watson Jr. Institute for International Studies, Brown University) has a forthcoming article entitled "Anglichane v Moskve vremen Borisa Godunova (po dokumentam posol'stva T. Smita, 1604-1605 gg)," in Arkheograficheskii Ezhegodnik za 1997 god.
Daniel Collins (Ohio State University) has published "The Pragmatics of Indirect Speech in Old Slavonic and Other Early Slavic Writings," Studies in Slavic and General Linguistics 21 (1996). He also has a forthcoming article entitled "The Function and Social Context of proshchal'nye gramoty," in Die unbeachteten mittelalterlichen Literaturgattungen in der Slavia Orthodoxa.
Brian Davies (University of Texas at San Antonio) has published "The Politics of Give and Take: Kormlenie as Service Renumeration and Generalized Exchange, 1488-1726" in Culture and Identity in Muscovy, 1359-1584, ed. Gail Lenhoff and Ann Kleimola. A book, State Power and Community Action in the Colonization of Russia's Southern Frontier, 1635-1648 is forthcoming.
Michael Flier (Harvard University) is currently working on the cultural semiotics of medieval Rus' and East Slavic historical dialectology. His recent publications include: (1) Coeditor [with Henrik Birnbaum] of The Language and Verse of Russia. In Honor of Dean S. Worth on his Sixty-fifth Birthday. UCLA Slavic Studies, New series, Vol. 2. Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura Publishers, 1995; (2) "Nedelja la Rus'" in The Language and Verse of Russia. In Honor of Dean S. Worth on his Sixty-fifth Birthday. Ed. Henrik Birnbaum and Michael S. Flier, 101-109. UCLA Slavic Studies, New Series, Vol. 2. Moscow: Vostochnaya literatura Publishers, 1995; (3) "Dolgie dieznye scipjascie soglasnye v russkom jazyke." Problemy fonetiki, v. 2. Ed. L. L. Kasatkin et al., 43-74. Moscow: Russian Language Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, 1995; (4) Editor of Ukrainian Philology and Linguistics [Harvard Ukrainian Studies 18, nos. 1-2, 1994 [1996]; (5) "The role of segmentation, rank, and natural class in Ukrainian dialectology," Harvard Ukrainian Studies 18, nos. 1-2, 1994 [1996]: 137-153; (6) "Filling in the Blanks: The Church of the Intercession and the Architectonics of Medieval Muscovite Ritual," Kamen" kraeug"l'n": Rhetoric of the Medieval Slavic World. Ed. Nancy S. Kollmann et al. [Harvard Ukrainian Studies 19, nos. 1-4, 1995, to appear in 1996]; (7) "Pokrovskij sobor i arxitektonika moskovskix srednevekovyx ritualov." Sakral'naja topografija srednevekovoj Moskvy [The Sacred Topography of Medieval Moscow], ed. A. L. Batalov. Moscow: Nauka, 1996 [in press]; (8) "Court Ritual and Reform: Patriarch Nikon and the Palm Sunday Ritual," in Religion and Culture in Early Modern Russia and Ukraine, ed. Samuel H. Baron and Nancy Shields Kollmann. De Kalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1996 [in press]; (9) "Part II: Lexical storage and lexical specification," in Catherine V. Chvany: Selected writings, ed. Emily R. Klenin and Olga T. Yokoyama, 99-103. Columbus: Slavica [in press].
Olga Glagoleva (University of Toronto) has published twenty articles in Tul'skii biograficheskii slovar' v. 1-2, Tula, Russia, 1996 and book reviews in International Journal, CIIA, v. 51/3, Summer 1996 and in Canadian Slavonic Papers, v. xxxvii, nos. 1-2, March-June, 1995.
Walter K. Hanak (Shepherd College) has published "Byzantine, Latin, and Muscovite Sources on the Fall of Constantinople (1453) and its Conqueror, Mehmed II." Eastern Churches Journal 3/2 (1996): 53-68.
Priscilla Hunt (University of Massachusetts Amherst) has a forthcoming article "The Tale of Peter and Fevroniia: The Text and the Icon," in Elementa, vol. 3, Spring, 1997.
Paul W. Knoll (University of Southern California) recently published "Poland," in the Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation, III: 283-288.
Gail Lenhoff (UCLA) just completed a book entitled Early Russian Hagiography: The Lives of Prince Fedor the Black, which will appear in Slavistische Veröffentlichungen, FU Berlin, 1997. She has also published two articles: "Unofficial Veneration of the Daniilovichi" in Culture and Identity in Muscovy, 1359-1584, ed. A. M. Kleimola and G. D. Lenhoff. UCLA Slavic Studies, n.s., 3. Moscow and "Istocnik rasskaza ob otkrytii moscej jaroslavskix knjazej v L'vovskoj i sofijskoj letopisjax" in Sbornik statej posvjascennyx semidesjatipjatiletiju so dnja rozdenija A. A. Zimina, ed. I. A. Tixonjuk, Moscow.
Philip Longworth (McGill University) published The Making of Eastern Europe, 1992/94 with a new edition due in 1997.
A. Dean McKenzie (University of Oregon) has published "Icons of Boris and Gleb," Modern Encyclopedia of Religion in Russia and the Soviet Union vol. IV 1992 and "Byzantine Influence on Russian Art," MERRSU, vol. V, 1993.
Georg Michels (University of California Riverside) has published "Muscovite Elite Women and Old Belief," in Rhetoric of the Medieval Slavic World: Essays Presented to E. L. Keenan on his Sixtieth Birthday. Ed. Nancy S. Kollmann et al. [Harvard Ukrainian Studies 19, nos. 1-4, 1995 (1996)]. He also has a forthcoming article entitled "Some Observations on the Social History of Old Belief," in G. Michels and R. Nichols, eds. Russia's Dissident Old Believers, 1650-1950.
Stephen Reinert (Rutgers University) has published "The Muslim Presence in Constantinople, 9th-15th Centuries," in Studies on the Internal Diaspora of the Byzantine Empire, ed. A. Laiou. Washington D.C.: 1996.
Ludwig Steindorff is currently working on confession and nation in Modern South Eastern Europe and monastic culture in Muscovite Russia. He has recently published the following: (1) Memoria in Altrußland. Untersuchungen zu den Formen christlicher Totensorge, Stuttgart: Steiner 1994 (=Quellen und Studien zur Geschichte des östlichen Europa bd. 38), S. 294 (überarbeitete Habilitationsschrift); (2) Klöster als Zentrum der Totensorge im Moskauer Rußland, in: Forschungen zur osteuropäischen Geschichte 50 (1995) (=Beiträge zur "7.Internationalen Konferenz zur Geschichte des Kiever und des Moskauer Reiches"), S. 337-354; (3) Manastiri kao sredista skrbi o mrtvima u staroj Rusiji. Summary: Monasteries as centers of care for the deceased in Old Russia, in: Otium. Casopis za povijest svakodnevnice 2 (1994 [1995]), 3-4, S. 29-37. [Gekürzte und in Einzelheiten ergänzte Übersetzung von Klöster als Zentrum der Totensorge (FOG 1995)]; (4) Jedno rusko svjedocanstvo o hrvatskim zemljama u XV stoljecu. [Ein russisches Zeugnis über die kroatischen Territorien im 15. Jahrhundert.], in: Otium. Casopis za povijest svakodnevnice 2 (Zagreb 1994 [1995]), 3-4, S. 71-72. [Gemeinsam mit Renata Steindorff]; (5) Das mittelalterliche Zagreb - ein Paradigma der mitteleuropäischen Stadtgeschichte, in: Südosteuropa Mitteilungen 35 (1995), 2, S. 135-145; (6) Samostani kot sredisca skrbi za pokojne v staroj Rusiji. Zusammenfassung: Klöster als Zentren der Totensorge in Altrußland, in: Zgodovinski casopis 49 (1995), S. 583-593. [Ins Slovenische übersetzte, ursprüngliche Fassung des Aufsatzes, der in etwas erweiterter Form 1995 in FOG erschienen ist]; (7) Privilegien als Ausdruck kommunaler Emanzipation. Der Fall Sibenik, in: Grafenauerjev zbornik, red. Vincenc Rajsp, Ljubljana 1996, S. 391-402; (8) Über eine Reise im Jahre 1470 entlang der istrischen und dalmatinischen Küste [Einleitung, neuhochdeutsche und kroatische Übersetzung von Auszügen aus dem mittelhochdeutschen Pilgerberichtes von Friedrich Steigerwalder], in Smotra. Rundschau. Zeitschrift der deutsch-kroatischen Gesellschaft fär kulturelle, wissenschaftliche und wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit 1 (1995 [1996]), 2, S. 102-110. [Gemeinsam mit Renata Steindorff]; (9) Deutungendes Wortes Dalmatia in der mittelalterlichen Historiographie. Zugleich über die Synode auf der Planities Dalmae, in: Etnogeneza Hrvata. Ethnogeny of the Croats, Red. Neven Budak, Zagreb 1995 [1996], S. 250-261; vollständige Übersetzung ins Kroatische ebenda, S. 148-158; (10) "Commemoration and Administrative Techniques in Muscovite Monasteries," in: Russian History/Histoire russe 22 (1995 [1996]), 4, S. 433-454. In addition, he has the following articles forthcoming: "Princess Mariia Golenina. Perpetuating identity through care for the deceased" (erscheint in: Culture and Identity in Muscovy, 1359-1584 // Moskovskaja Rus' (1359-1584): kul'tura i istoriceskoe samosoznanie, Hrsg. Ann M. Kleimola, Gail Lenhoff, Moskva: Izdatel'stvo "ITS-Garant"); Sravnenie istocnikov ob organizacii pominanija usopsich v Iosifo-Volokolamskom i v Troice-Sergievom monastyrjach v XVI v. [Ein Vergleich der Quellen über die Organisation des Totengedenkens im Iosif-Kloster bei Volokolamsk und im Troica-Sergij-Kloster im 16. Jh.] (erscheint wahrscheinlich 1997 in: Archeograficeskij ezegodnik, Moskau).
Marina Swoboda (McGill University) has published "Paleographic Considerations in the Vremennik of Ivan Timofeyev," in Ricerche Slavistiche, vol 42, 1995.
Milos Velimirovic (Charlottesville, Virginia) published "Problems of Evolution in Meaning in the Russian Neumatic Notation between the 14th-17th Centuries," in Cantus Planus Eger 1993, vol. 2 (Budapest, 1995): 465-72.
Daniel C. Waugh (University of Washington) has recently published "Anatolii's Miscellany: Its Origins and Migration," and "Correspondence concerning The 'Correspondence,'" both in Harvard Ukrainian Studies, 19 (Keenan Festschrift); "K izucheniiu fal'sifikatsii pis'mennykh istochnikov po istorii srednevekovoi Rossii," forthcoming in Festschrift in memory of A. A. Zimin.
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